Ten California hospitals were penalized a total of $700,000 Wednesday after state health inspectors found deficiencies in care that resulted in one patient being abandoned on the side of the road to wait for transportation and another dying because a feeding tube was inserted incorrectly.

The California Department of Public Health released the list of penalties as it does periodically, along with inspection reports that offer details into why and how the medical errors occurred. Hospitals fined include those in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Kaiser Permanente’s Woodland Hills facility was fined $50,000 because a patient received 19 doses of three types of narcotic medications within a few hours then died nine days later. Inspectors found that a device that administers medications may have been too accessible to the patient’s family members, which is against hospital policy.

In a statement, Kaiser officials said quality of care includes learning from any adverse event.

“When an adverse unanticipated outcome occurs, even if standard medical procedures were followed, we rigorously investigate the cause and work hard to make changes to help prevent it from occurring again,” according to the statement. “We embrace that accountability, and these rare events reinforce our commitment to continuous improvement, patient safety and high quality care.”

Loma Linda University Medical Center was penalized $50,000 after a resident physician inserted a feeding a tube that went into the patient’s lung instead of the stomach. As a result, the patient died.

In a statement, officials said the event occurred more than five years ago.

“We are a teaching hospital, and we carefully study critical events to identify opportunities to improve systems and practices of patient care,” according to a statement. “At the time of this event, in early 2010, we reviewed the incident and implemented improvements to prevent any further events similar to the one in question. Our improvements have proved effective, and there have been no further events of this nature.”

The medical center has not made a final decision on whether it will appeal, according to the statement.

Meanwhile, Southwest Healthcare in Murrieta was fined $100,000 because a 47-year-old patient suffering from pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension and kidney dysfunction who was admitted to the emergency department died as a result of a delay in care and medications.

Wednesday’s penalty was the hospital’s 13th. Last year, the hospital was fined $400,000 for four different events that placed patients’ care in jeopardy.

The hospital did not respond to a request for comment.

Carmen Balber, executive director for the Santa Monica-based group Consumer Watchdog, said the state’s Department of Public Health has failed to take harder actions or increase inspections when hospitals repeat medical errors.

Last year, the group wrote a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, the state’s Department of Public Health and Diana Dooley, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, asking them to begin a statewide audit of adverse events in hospitals. The group received no response, Balber said.

“I think there is a clear need for legislators to take some initiative to help patients,” she said. “Clearly, hospitals are not reporting all the harm that is happening. They are not correcting the problem when the Department of Public Health is finding out.”

Among those hospitals penalized:

* Beverly Hospital in Montebello was fined $50,000 when a nurse attempted to insert a nasal tube into a patient five times unsuccessfully, resulting in serious nose bleeds.

* John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio was fined $100,000 for not adequately discharging to another facility an uninsured patient who suffered liver damage. The patient was abandoned at the side of a road waiting for a ride.

* UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, was fined $100,000, the hospital’s ninth administrative penalty, after a patient with a complicated medical history including immune deficiency was given a chicken pox vaccine against doctors’ orders. The patient suffered infection in both eyes resulting in multiple surgeries and loss of vision.